Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 210422-69872-1285
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- London, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision' was an exhibition curated by Frances Spalding and held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, between July and October 2014. The exhibition explored Woolf’s life and achievements as a novelist, intellectual, campaigner and public figure. It included portraits of Woolf by her Bloomsbury Group contemporaries Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry and photographs by Beresford and Man Ray, as well as intimate images recording her time spent with friends and family, as well as rare archival material. Woolf’s early life and literary achievements, alongside lesser known aspects of her time in London and political views, were brought into focus through in-depth archival and scholarly research undertaken by Spalding, and by way of the display of rare archival material and personal objects including letters, diaries and books.
Spalding authored a supporting book of the same title (included in this output) which explores Virginia Woolf's life and work in relation to portraiture, ideas of the unstable self, and her fascination with the modern city, as well as in connection with her friendships with artists and writers, her interest in the Spanish Civil War, and her growing politicisation in relation to the issue of war and the changing position of women in society.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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